Mexican Broom Bush

Spanish broom spartium junceum is a mediterranean perennial bush that grows to 10 feet tall.

Mexican broom bush. Medium size evergreen shrub with quill like erect green branches. Spanish broom is not very cold hardy and usually freezes back to ground level coming back from the roots in the spring. Filling the summer air with its terrific honey vanilla scent award winner spartium junceum spanish broom is a vigorous medium sized shrub which produces masses of large bright yellow pea like flowers 1 in. The branches on this evergreen develop upright and bear sparse foliage.

Spartium junceum the spanish broom rush broom or weaver s broom is a species of flowering plant in the family fabaceae. The almost leafless branches display showy pea shaped fragrant blossoms. It is the sole species in the genus spartium but is closely related to the other brooms in the genera cytisus and genista. Spanish broom is so closely angled that it appears almost round.

Scotch broom has a five sided stem while french and portuguese have 8 and 10 angled stems. Fragrant bright yellow flowers are followed by three inch long seed pods requires full sun and low watering once established. The bright yellow flowers have a pea pod like appearance which yield to black or brown pods filled with dark green seeds in late summer. In early spring the shrub produces yellow flowers that drop an abundance of immature seedpods.

Long 2 5 cm in summer. A beautiful and most unusual specimen.